Palworld Breeding Calculator
Pick the Pal you're after and we'll show every pair that makes it — guaranteed combos first, then everything else, easiest-to-catch first. Flip it to see what two Pals will hatch, or map the shortest breeding chain from something you've already got to the one you actually want. 200+ Pals, icons and all — no login, no "sign up to see results."
✓ Breeding data current — Palworld 1.0 · re-verified July 2026Two questions, one tool: got a pair and want to know what the baby might inherit — or want a passive set and need the fastest way to breed it? (Passives only — the pairing fixes the species.)
How Palworld breeding works
Every Pal carries a hidden Combi Rank (the game calls it Breeding Power) — a number that runs from the low double digits for the rarest Pals up to ~3,100 for the chaff like Lamball and Chikipi (1.0 reshuffled the whole spectrum to fit the new roster). Drop a male and a female into a Breeding Farm with a Cake in the box and the game settles the egg's species with three rules, checked in this order:
- Same species. Two of the same Pal always breed that same Pal. That's not a fallback — it's how you farm better passive skills without the species drifting on you.
- Special combo. Seventy-plus fixed pairings ignore the maths entirely and make a specific Pal: every elemental subspecies (Lux, Cryst, Noct, Terra, Aqua, Ignis, Botan, Gild, Primo) plus standalone uniques like Celesdir. One pair is gender-locked — Katress × Wixen, where the mother decides between Katress Ignis and Wixen Noct. Full list below.
- The formula. Everything else averages out:
childRank = floor((rankA + rankB + 1) / 2), and the egg is whichever Pal sits closest to that number. Ties break by the game's internal priority order (1.0 changed this — pre-1.0 tie tables are stale).
Parent order and sex never change the species (the one Katress × Wixen pair aside) — only which passives and stats carry down. And the self-only club got bigger in 1.0: the tower-boss tier (Faleris, Grizzbolt, Lyleen, Orserk, Shadowbeak, Bastigor, Selyne) lost its old unique combos, so like Jetragon and Frostallion the only route now is two of the same. Catch the first one, then breed the pair to reroll its passives.
Every special breeding combo
These pairings override the Combi Rank formula — if you want one of these Pals, the pair listed here is the only one that breeds it directly. No amount of rank-averaging gets you there. Most produce an elemental subspecies; the rest are standalone uniques. Order and sex don't matter.
Want the parents for any Pal, not just these? Browse every Pal's breeding page — one page per Pal with its combos, parents, and what it breeds into.
Self-only Pals. These can't be bred from anything but themselves — 1.0 retired the old unique combos for the tower-boss tier (Faleris, Grizzbolt, Lyleen, Orserk, Shadowbeak and friends), moving them into this club. Pair two of the same to reroll passives, never to create the first one: Panthalus, Shaolong, Bastigor, Dandilord, Jetragon, Silvance, Hartalis, Blazamut Ryu, Orserk, Bellanoir Libero, Frostallion, Neptilius, Paladius, Necromus, Lyleen, Selyne, Xenolord, Faleris, Shadowbeak, Xenogard, Grizzbolt, Mimog, Xenovader.
Passives are the real reason to breed
The species is locked the moment you choose the parents — what's actually up for grabs is the baby's passive skills. Each parent brings up to four, and the offspring draws from that combined pool: it can inherit anywhere from none to all four, with any empty slots rolled at random. That's the whole game behind a "perfect" Pal — stack a target set like Legend, Lucky, Ferocious and a movement passive across two parents, then breed until a baby pulls the lot. The ✨ Passives tab at the top of this page does the probability for you: feed it both parents' skills and it returns the odds of the set you're chasing, or work backwards from the passives you want and it plans the cleanest pairing. Two of the same species is the standard grinding pair, because the species never wanders while you fish for the roll.
Breeding tips that save real time
- Cake is the gate. One Cake per egg — five Flour, eight Red Berries, seven Milk, eight Eggs, two Honey. Get a Wheat plantation plus a ranch of Mozzarina (milk), Chikipi (eggs) and a Beegarde or Cinnamoth (honey) running early, or the farm stalls the moment you get serious.
- Level is irrelevant. A level-1 and a level-50 parent breed the exact same egg. Never waste time leveling parents before you breed them — only their passives and species matter.
- Mind the egg temperature. Eggs hatch on a timer, but Fire-type eggs want a warm incubator and Frost-type eggs want a cold one. Park the right campfire or cooler box next to the incubator and the hatch time drops hard.
- Let the path finder do the chain. If the parents you need aren't catchable — they're bred too — the 🧬 Breeding path tab maps the shortest route from a Pal you already own up to your target.
- Condense the leftovers. Breeding throws off a pile of spare Pals. Feed the duplicates into a Pal Condenser to rank up the one you're keeping instead of selling them for pocket change.
Frequently asked
Does it matter which parent is male or female?
Almost never. You need one of each sex to breed, and for every pair but one the egg's species is identical regardless of which parent is which. The one exception: Katress × Wixen — a female Katress hatches Katress Ignis, a female Wixen hatches Wixen Noct. Parent order doesn't matter either — this calculator treats A + B and B + A as the same, and shows both gendered outcomes for that pair.
How do I breed legendaries like Jetragon or Frostallion?
They're self-only. The only breeding route is to pair two of the same legendary, so most players catch the first one in the wild, then breed two together to roll better passive skills onto the offspring. 1.0 grew this club: the tower-boss tier — Faleris, Grizzbolt, Lyleen, Orserk, Shadowbeak, Bastigor, Selyne — lost its old unique combos and is self-only now too. If a pre-1.0 guide tells you Vanwyrm + Anubis makes a Faleris, it's stale.
Why are there so many parent pairs for one Pal?
Any two Pals whose Combi Ranks average into a target's range will breed it, so a common Pal can have hundreds of valid pairs. We list them all, easiest-to-obtain parents first, and you can filter to pairs that include a Pal you already own.
Are the combinations up to date?
Yes — updated for Palworld 1.0. Ranks, unique combos and the self-only list are derived straight from the actively maintained palcalc dataset's full datamined breeding matrix, and our data build re-computes and verifies every one of the 44,000+ parent pairs against that matrix before anything ships — if even one pair disagrees, nothing publishes. The Tides of Terraria collab Pals (flagged collab) are included, combo matrix and all; you still catch the first ones in the wild.
What do I actually need to breed?
A Breeding Farm, a male and a female Pal placed inside, and Cake in the farm's storage. The egg's species is what this calculator predicts — incubate it to hatch the Pal.
Breeding toward a boss Pal? Find where to catch any Alpha, legendary, or tower boss — location, weakness, and drops — on the Palworld boss locations hub. (Boss Pals only — regular wild spawns aren't mapped.)
Pal data: palcalc v26 (ranks + the full datamined breeding matrix our combos and self-only list are derived from and verified against); Pal icons via paldb.cc. The Tides of Terraria collab Pals are flagged separately and kept out of the averaging formula — you catch them in the wild, and their combo matrix is included here. Spot something off? Report it.